CHAPTER 45: LOTUS HILL SECT IS MINE

Li Shen released his grip on Na Tian’s neck, freeing the man. But what kind of freedom would he get? A freedom full of manipulation.

Na Tian set his foot on a place that was very different from Lotus Hill. It was a splendid hill with many beautiful flowers blooming, there was nothing but blooming flowers along his vision horizon.

"Senior Tian?" greeted a woman, a voice that sounded very familiar to Na Tian.

The man turned around and looked back, a beautiful woman with long white hair was standing in the pink robe she was wearing. The light in her eyes seemed to disappear, the woman’s gaze seemed empty towards Na Tian. The man could feel it.

"Ling’er?" asked Na Tian, hurriedly stepping closer to his woman, Xiu Ling.

The more he pursued, however, the farther away Xiu Ling felt from his near. Slowly, she was very far away from Na Tian, making Na Tian scream and try to use his spiritual energy.

Even so, Na Tian had trouble using it. He felt that he was in a place of magic manipulation, similar to a cultivator’s own dao domain. Yet, he didn’t know who owned this place.

Young Na Tian arrived near Xiu Ling, holding the girl’s hand and restoring the light in her eyes. Xiu Ling turned her head, smiling at the sight of Na Tian’s face.

To Xiu Ling, it was Na Tian, the man she loved. However, from Na Tian’s eyes, he clearly saw that Xiu Ling was tightly grasping another man’s hand. It was Li Shen.

"LI SHEN!" shouted Na Tian.

"Don’t touch her! I’m warning you," Na Tian snapped.

Li Shen didn’t listen to Na Tian. He took Xiu Ling to do many things in that place, from sleeping on the grass, taking shade under a tree, making a tree swing, and eating fruit together.

Na Tian saw their affection, he didn’t expect that Xiu Ling would be affected by Li Shen. Still, Na Tian reassured himself that this incident wasn’t real, but manipulation.

"He’s trying to shake my will. It won’t work," Na Tian explained.

"Senior Tian?" someone asked again, making Na Tian startled.

He turned his head slowly back, seeing Xiu Ling’s figure there, with her white hair and pink robe. Na Tian tried to confirm while staring forward, how shocked he was to see Li Shen having an affectionate moment with another woman —Ruo Fei.

"Why did you let me die?" asked Xiu Ling.

"Didn’t you promise to protect me?"

"Is this the promise of a Soul Formation cultivator? What’s the point of being strong if you can’t protect the people that are most important to you?" asked Ling’er.

STAB!

A sword was stabbed from behind Xiu Ling, exactly the same way she was killed. Na Tian dashed forward, yelling to catch the person who killed Xiu Ling.

"Wait!"

Na Tian gaped and stopped his move when he saw the person who killed Xiu Ling was himself, Na Tian. It made the real Na Tian feel shocked, his mind disturbed, his soul unstable.

Not only Xiu Ling, but many souls of Na Tian’s closest people were coming to this place. They numbered in the hundreds of thousands and were holding Na Tian responsible.

Na Tian cried blood and shouted loudly, saying clearly with an evil laugh that he admitted to having to kill them.

"I had to kill you all! It was so that I could gain great power and become a respected person in the entire kingdom!"

The souls turned furious, they flew to and fro and attacked Na Tian’s primordial soul. Na Tian was originally able to dodge and fend them off, but the sheer number of them made it even more difficult for Na Tian.

STAB!

Na Tian’s stomach was stabbed from behind, the incident was exactly the same as the moment Ling’er was stabbed to death. Yet, it wasn’t the strange souls who stabbed him, but Ling’er herself. That left Na Tian in shock.

"Pay for what you did, Senior Tian!"

The entire strange soul took out swords, then stabbed all parts of Na Tian’s helpless body. Na Tian cried out loudly in pain, begging for forgiveness and regretting what he had done.

When Na Tian opened his eyes, the cycle repeated itself. He met Ling’er walking with Li Shen, making out on a hill full of flowers.

Na Tian was shocked with widened eyes, he touched his body and saw that he was fine, even though his entire body had been stabbed by thousands of swords.

"Wh-What happened?" asked Na Tian.

"Senior Tian?" greeted Ling’er from behind Na Tian.

Na Tian turned his head in fear, seeing Ling’er’s innocent face in her pink robe suit.

"Impossible..."

"Why did you let me die?" asked Xiu Ling.

"AAAAAAAKKKKKKKHHHHH!" screamed Na Tian loudly.

Outside Li Shen’s domain of dao dreams, Li Shen stood in front of Na Tian who was seen bowing his head. He was still hovering before Li Shen, but showed no signs of being released from Li Shen’s domain of dream dao.

"I already told you, the dream dao domain is the worst way to die," Li Shen replied.

"You will continue to suffer and lose your cultivation, that’s because your primordial soul is being destroyed bit by bit," Li Shen explained.

"However, Soul Formation cultivator souls are quite rare. I’ll refine your soul and infuse it into one of Xiao Bai’s weapons," Li Shen said.

"That way, Xiao Bai will have a weapon artifact on par with an Early Stage Soul Formation cultivator."

Li Shen swung his hand to the side, bringing up a dao domain banner and pulling Na Tian’s soul from his body to enter the banner. The moment Li Shen plucked Na Tian’s soul was witnessed by many sect members, including Lin Xiao.

Na Tian’s soul was successfully pulled out and sucked into the dao domain banner. Li Shen smiled, putting his Dao Domain Banner back into his primordial soul again.

Now, what was left in front of Li Shen was Na Tian’s soulless body. Li Shen threw the body into the sect, much to the surprise of Lin Xiao and the others.

"He has killed the ancestor? We can’t fight him anymore," Lin Xiao replied.

"What can we do now?" asked another elder.

"How about we call the Qing Sect Alliance Leader? He might be able to—"

"That’s useless. Our status is new members, not regular members. They won’t waste resources just to help our sect," Lin Xiao explained.

"Then, what can we do?"

Lin Xiao paused, then looked up and put his hands together. He spoke loudly to Li Shen, as if he was asking Li Shen to negotiate.

"Fellow Dao, please spare us! We’ll do whatever you arrange," Lin Xiao explained.

Li Shen fell silent. He flew down from the sect’s sky until he entered the sect’s restraining formation. A glow of radiated spiritual energy flashed from both fingers of Li Shen’s right hand, commanding the six legendary dragons to fly behind him.

"Hand over all of your sect’s resources," Li Shen declared.

The man again activated a certain formation, the Rules of Restriction Formation. In the past, this formation was often used to manage many people on a wide scale, whether on the scale of a sect, city, or kingdom.

This time, Li Shen tried to use the Rules of Restriction Formation against the Lotus Hill Sect, with the clear rule of not allowing any practitioners to ascend to the Soul Formation stage.

If any of them who had been marked by the Rules of Restriction Formation’s red mark break through to the Soul Formation realm, then the red lightning would instantly destroy their new souls.

[Rules of Restriction Formation Activated!]

Li Shen pointed his hand upwards, bringing forth a large circular rune that spread throughout the entire section of the sect. From the runes, a rain of red magic particles hit the cultivators’ bodies, leaving them with the red mark.

As for them, they had never known the Rules of Restriction Formation. In history, it had never been written about. It was because too many secrets were hidden by the Qing Yan Kingdom.

"Rules of Restriction Formation?" asked Lin Xiao.

"Your sect will remain. However, I am restricting your development. You cannot leave the sect. You cannot learn cultivation techniques above 4th level. You cannot break through to the Soul Formation stage. You can’t do any of that without my permission," Li Shen emphasized.

"If any of you try to violate it, then his body and soul will instantly die."

Li Shen looked down with a cold gaze, "Do you understand?"

"We understand, Sect Ancestor."